My Master Knows It All

423: Chapter 167 – Prideful Ambition_5 423: Chapter 167 – Prideful Ambition_5 Cao Zhen, out of curiosity, barely gave it a thought before blurting out, “What method?”

The Grand Preceptor stretched out a hand and made a chopping gesture in the air.

He looked at Cao Zhen and spoke in a regained calm tone, “Because I slashed myself with a knife.”

To slash oneself with a knife, coming from his mouth, was as calm and ordinary as drinking water or eating a meal.

Cao Zhen was completely unsettled.

To slash oneself with a knife naturally meant to cut down one’s own cultivation base.

If a person’s cultivation base was damaged due to an injury, or even if it was like Yu Tuoyu, the Grand Preceptor’s disciple, who blew up his Golden Core and then took a Pill, theoretically, it’s possible to slowly recover the damaged cultivation base.

But to cut one’s cultivation base, if you sever your own cultivation base, then it is truly gone, and it is very, very difficult to cultivate back.

To slash oneself with a knife was equivalent to disabling one’s martial arts, to severing one’s own meridians!

It could even be said that a self-slashed cultivation base almost meant that after the slash, the cultivation base truly could not be cultivated back.

Cao Zhen was astonished.

The Grand Preceptor’s voice came again, “I know that the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth is drawing closer, and the suppression from the Heavenly Dao will become more severe.

In the coming days, I will keep slashing my cultivation base, all the way down to the Golden Core Realm.”

Cao Zhen immediately understood the Grand Preceptor’s intention.

The Grand Preceptor, he would keep doing this, maintaining just a thread’s difference from being discovered by the Heavenly Dao, and then slash all the way down to the Golden Core Realm.

This idea, it’s too strong.

How could the Grand Preceptor conceive of such an idea!

His heart was filled with astonishment and incomprehension.

Seeing the look of shock on Cao Zhen’s face, the Grand Preceptor calmly said, “Are you wondering, once the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth ends, what should I do?

By that time, the people from the realms above the Golden Core will wake up one after another.

At that time, if I am only at the Golden Core level, will I not suffice?”

As the Grand Preceptor spoke, a peerlessly intense confidence surged within him, and he said proudly, “So what if I slash my cultivation base?

To slash my cultivation base is to be able to cultivate it back, not that it cannot be cultivated back.

I believe that by the end of the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, I will definitely break through again, and cultivate back all of my cultivation base.

Whatever cultivation realm I reached before, why can’t I achieve the same by cultivating it back?

Even if I slash my cultivation base, it will be the same!

When that day comes, I will still be number one in the world, and I will become even stronger!”

Cao Zhen, feeling the Grand Preceptor’s confidence for the first time, realized that his level of confidence seemed even stronger than that of a transmigrator!

Even he, who had obtained the true protagonist’s script, did not possess such confidence, not like Xiang Ziyu thought of as protagonist’s capital.

The Grand Preceptor’s fanatical confidence had reached a point where, just by listening, those nearby would firmly believe that he could achieve everything he said!

It was the first time he had felt such intense confidence from a person!

After the Grand Preceptor finished speaking, he didn’t dwell on these issues anymore.

He glanced at the list in his hand and his tone once again returned to calm, “Although these Spiritual Medicines are many, you did save my disciple after all, and likewise, you have done much for the common people of the Guardian Immortal Imperial Dynasty.

These materials, I can give them all to you.”

Upon hearing the Grand Preceptor’s words, Cao Zhen snapped out of his amazement at the Grand Preceptor’s intense confidence.

In front of him, the Grand Preceptor had already walked to the doorway, and his voice came through again.

“The Spiritual Medicines you’ve asked for are indeed numerous, and it will take time for me to prepare them.

How about, staying for a simple meal?”

“That would be good,” Cao Zhen quickly nodded; his main purpose for visiting the Grand Preceptor was indeed out of curiosity, but more importantly, it was for these Spiritual Medicines, so he naturally decided to stay.

But just a simple meal…

Cao Zhen soon discovered that the simple meal was truly simple.

The two of them had only a simple spread of four dishes and one soup, with the four dishes being nothing more than ordinary farmhouse fare.

The place where they ate was under a grape trellis in the outside courtyard, served on a stone table that seemed to have weathered countless storms.

And the stone he was sitting on was exceptionally smooth, as if it had been sat upon countless times.

No sooner had he sat down than the door of the courtyard was pushed open.

A middle-aged man dressed in earthy yellow clothes, who looked to be in his thirties or forties, stepped forward.

This middle-aged man showed no hint of a cultivation aura, nor could any special traits be felt from him.

If placed on a busy street, Cao Zhen felt he would not draw anyone’s notice.

Yet this middle-aged man entered the Grand Preceptor’s estate as casually as if returning to his own home.

This person?

Who is this?

A disciple of the Grand Preceptor?

It didn’t seem like it.

While Cao Zhen pondered in confusion, the Grand Preceptor next to him had already stood up and gave the middle-aged man a hand salute.

“Your Majesty.”

The voice wasn’t loud, but the short two words hit Cao Zhen like a thunderbolt, nearly making him exclaim in shock!

This man, this middle-aged man, was the emperor of the Guardian Immortal Dynasty!

The Emperor!

Cao Zhen suddenly came to his senses, stood up quickly, and glanced at the Grand Preceptor, then at the emperor nearby, his mind quite befuddled.

This was his first time seeing an emperor in both of his lives.

Why had the Emperor suddenly come?

That’s right, this is the Emperor, so, what should he do?

Cao Zhen turned his head towards the Grand Preceptor and asked, “Should I…

should I kneel down?”